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Hello MINT GURUS, I was attempting to upgrade Celena to Daryna and ended up with Ubuntu 7.10. In other words, my respository is broken and I need your help....Is there anyway to repopulate or populate my sources list to the proper links and upgrade to Daryna? I have several issues as you can imagine.

I suppose the easiest and most prudent fix would be to do a clean install which I can do, but this is on a dual boot setup with XP of which I have not tried to do a clean install while already having a dual boot situation...

I could save my home folder to my jump drive and then download Daryna, burn the ISO to CD and then "clean load" Daryna by overwriting the current 7.10....

I am simply looking for the least non-intrusive fix, or I may just be somewhat lazy today.....

I would suggest a clean install of the sort I just did today,m in fact. Just reinstall it, using the same partition config, only formatting your root partition , so you end up with a reformatted root and swap, but you are left with your home partition as it was before (backing up, obviously). This would be my fix, but I'm no guru, so you may be able to just fix your install without reinstalling

I would also go with civint's suggestion .. install to the already created linux partitions and overwrite Ubuntu. ie delete those partitions and install Daryna you will then get the dual-boot scenario with mint instead of Ubuntu.

A clean install was placed on a laptop and desktop........ and then on one desktop that had a dual boot.....I completed the following: (taken from desktop notes)
How to upgrade from Celena?
Change your APT sources

Edit the sources.list as root (sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list) to make it look like this:

actually I just left it running all night and this morning it was still setting up....that is if you allow the package maintainer to reconfig everything....so if you do decide to upgrade via changing your repository etc and apt update, upgrade and dist-upgrade (actually I had to sudo apt-get instead of using apt)....when you are asked if you want to use the package maintainer config, be sure and use the default N so that your system will not be up all night loading the new configuration....